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A train wreck.
(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back and read yesterday’s Vitamin V here.)
In the old days, when I gave my student a formula and then asked them to speak, it was always a disaster.
And don’t think that they just needed more practice.
If you’re going in the wrong direction, running faster won’t help.
Why?
Why doesn’t learning rules and formalas help your speaking?
As the famous American baseball player, Yogi Berra, once said, You can’t think and hit the ball.
For English, I would say:
You can’t remember rules and speak.
“But I want to speak correctly!” you say.
I understand.
But formulas, rules and correction will not help you.
I’ll tell you will help you tomorrow.
And… the most important question for your English.
I perfectly agree with you; we cannot speak or develop our personality or work or anything what you want about a formula; we can make only math perhaps physics or a kind of abstract thing about formula.
“If you’re going in a wrong direction, running faster won’t help”, sounds interesting for recognising and changing direction if you need that.
Waiting tomorrow😊
Salut Ryan ! Bineînțeles că nu poți să-ți amintești regulile gramaticale .Atunci când le-ai invataț ele au fost depuse în lăcașul denumit memorie, putând fi accesate la un moment dat.
Că să poți exersa și aprofunda o limbă străină, in cazul nostru limba engleza, este necesar sa stai in mediul propice ,adică unde se vorbește nu numai engleza ci și limba ta nativa.Si Intr o perioada de timp nu foarte lunga ,vei putea vorbi fluent limba engleza
Noroc,
Gabriel
Vitamin V is interesting and challenging precisely because of “playing cards” and “locomotives”. The story is multifaceted. As English learners, we still don’t know how to follow the delicately asked questions.
Of course – we can’t think and hit the ball.
Cheers.
Hello Ryan!
Yesterday, without any grammar rules or formulas, I was able to ask a Polish lady who works with Ukrainian people what will happen in Poland to Ukrainian men aged between 16 and 60?
Will they be deported back to Ukraine or will Poland give them asylum? It is a very difficult political question, but she understood me and answered. Of course she did not know what the decision would be.This talk was important for me, beacuse I have been using your method only for a month and half, and another person understood me in this very current question. I agree with your method, plas I am very grateful to you!
Great! Thanks for sharing.
I really like the proverb: “If you’re going in a wrong direction, running faster won’t help”. There is something similar in Bulgarian: “It’s not important to rush, but to go in the right direction.”
I don’t agree with “you can’t think and hit the ball”. On the contrary, you really should think how to hit the ball. A human being is a thinking reed, as the philosopher Blaise Pascal said.
This is a half truth!
It’s interesting stories or one-side conversation
I think that all is important but in general the most important is to start to do it regularly. In case of English…. To talk and use it every day. Thats the best way to improve English.
This is a very correct position:)
What a nice conversation about politics, learning English, proverbs….I read everything.
…If you live in a foring county it is simle (more) easier to learn the language because you inevitably have to speak it.And you focus on learning…and so an
The politics of “will happen in Poland with ukrai
Sory
What will happen in Poland with ukrainian men?We wait and hope they don’t release them.So they do not have to participate in the war. It was enought. Meny people died.
“If you’re going in a wrong direction, running faster won’t help”. I never heard it bat it is good and right.
“It’s not important to rush, but to go in the right direction.” It’s right.
Go slowly you will get there.
If you love fire, suffer its smoke.
Fighting is a medicine that cannot be without danger.
Those who haven’t tried war like only they like it.
One peace is better than a hundred wars.
Friendships are harder to maintain than to make it.
So I hopd thet the friendships that make in this place you can keep it as the friendship betveen natioans.
I do not know how many mistakes I make but it was pleasure for me to read and write.
I think we can do two or more things at the same time but we will do them worse unlike if we focus on only one thing
If we are going wrong direction there is no need speed.